Det er woke ikke at være korrupt

New paper this week by V-Dem's director, @silindberg.bsky.social, on the the current wave of autocratization: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1... Including this important statement: "...it is by my own analysis no question that the USA no longer qualifies as a democracy."

The argument that you have to get into (civil) dialogue with the far right is factually and morally wrong. Most are bad-faith actors. And even those that are not are rarely actually “confronted” with their “controversial” ideas and assumptions — which you can read in their publications anyway.

This is re: TikTok and X — and Meta, having long employed former Republican operative and Kavanaugh pal Joel Kaplan, just hired right-wing influencer Robby Starbuck to help it ferret out bias in its AI systems. Neat.

Now the 🇺🇸 ambassador to 🇧🇪 is threatening to destroy the life of the leader of the main centre-left party in Belgium with 🇺🇸sanctions (could no longer use credit cards etc) because he criticised what ICE is doing. And yet these people have the nerve to say it is Europe threatening free speech.

"With the numerous additional assaults on democratic institutions, norms, and legal boundaries by the Trump administration since then, it is by my own analysis no question that the USA no longer qualifies as a democracy." #usa #democracy #democraticbacksliding

Mr Goodwin has not responded to requests to comment, apparently

This is the sort of juicy story of government suppressing speech that Bari Weiss loves to cover! [No mention in CBS News or The Free Press]

Vi kunne jo prøve at eksportere Dankortet. Fx som Danegeld

Cory Doctorow om trilemmaet mellem fællesskab, information og rækkevidde pluralistic.net/2026/02/16/f...

Spørgsmålet er om vi kan være trygge ved at have socialdemokrater gående frit rundt på gaderne www.tv2fyn.dk/odense/socia...

Two months before an election in Hungary in which Viktor Orban faces a stiff challenge, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio travels to Budapest and tells Orban that Trump is “deeply committed to your success”. This is the definition of election meddling www.reuters.com/world/europe...

News update: The EU announced that Commissioner Suica, who Tony Blair wanted to meet according to the document we obtained, has agreed to join the first meeting of the "Board of Peace". No sh*t. Their lobbying actually worked!

Rubio has a personal interest in saying nice(ish) things to Europe; the Trump administration as a whole has a strong interest in Europe not acting on the rupture the White House has created. None of this means an actual change of direction in US foreign policy.

Stubb in Munich: “5 countries are in top ten, whether it's justice, whether it's least corrupt, whether it's open, whether it's welfare,… environment, whether it's open media, gender equality—they are the Nordics. So I don't buy the argument that we're doing bad. I'm actually bloody happy” 🇫🇮 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 🇩🇰 🇮🇸

Apparently, the outgoing Dutch defence minister says that if the U.S. blocks F-35 upgrades, the Dutch will jailbreak it for all Europe. Which they may be able to do - IIRC they are involved in its software development. www.bnr.nl/podcast/boek...

EU's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, on US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's comments about free speech - pointing out that the US is ranked 58 on the world press freedom list. Estonia, her country, is second. Interesting, she says. @kajakallas.bsky.social #Rubio

Apropos det her med at Vesten Begår Selvmord 🤦‍♂️

Vi får konstant at vide at indvandrere i almindelighed og muslimer i særdeleshed er en dødelig trussel mod Den Europæiske (Vestlige) Kultur Sammenlignet med europæiske (vestlige) regeringers indsats på området, virker det lidt overdrevet

Europeans still have a hard time acknowledging the fact that after Putin‘s Russia began denouncing Europe as “Gayropa”, the US is now joining the chorus of the declinists in terms of “civilizational erasure”. Europe is entering a moment of strategic loneliness. Better face it quickly.

3) Regarding the Rubio speech I stand by what I wrote immediately after 👇

Free piece just released. Marco Rubio called on tolerant, democratic, liberal Europe to destroy itself and embrace a Trump-like future. He received a standing ovation and we are told some people are reassured. If so, Europe will deserve everything coming its way. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Die Zeit er ikke så ukritisk over for Marco Rubio som danske medier og politikere- kortere version: USAs mål er europæisk underkastelse www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

Rubio's speech at the MSC was not (and should not be) in the least bit reassuring for Europe, the fundamental substance not different to Vance last year This US Admin and Europe no longer share the same values This will continue to throw up risks in Ukraine, Greenland, big tech etc

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

At Christiansborg har 100% car brain er nok dagens mindst overraskende nyhed nyheder.tv2.dk/live/kort-ny...

[Kigger på Weekendavisen]

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Elect Farage, get Putin.

Spørgsmålet kan så være hvad vi skal vente i det kommende danske valg - der kan være Dansk Folkeparti (mest åbenlyst), Danmarksdemokraterne, Liberal Alliance og/eller Borgernes Parti at holde øje med

Den havde ingen nok lige set komme

Palantir now sues a Swiss magazine. But yeah let’s keep the lie alive that Trump’s America is a beacon of free speech ↘️

Can’t make this up ↘️

This company is so uniquely toxic and awful.

Well, there are some names I hope to see pulling out of this. Not only is Yarvin a profoundly uninteresting thinker, for interesting thinkers to appear alongside him helps mainstream the anti-democratic, anti-pluralist views that inform the current political moment.

Nok en god nyhed. Mænds forventede levealder nærmer sig kvinders forventede levealder. Men der er stor ulighed på tværs af indkomstgrupper. Syv år for kvinder og 10 for mænd, mellrm de højeste og laveste indkomster. www.dr.dk/nyheder/sene...

Like most of us the rich tend to build their worldview around their own interests. (Welfare = taxes on me so bad). But their interests diverge more from the majority than the norm. And they have fewer people around them willing to point out when they're wrong.

“What we have here, is failure to communicate”

Mit bibliotek er stadig ikke i orden, men jeg burde genlæse denne af desværre afdøde Peter Mair

It also remains one of the saddest things about this whole sordid era: Bad enough to have a major party succumb to a demagogue, but it’s a personality cult around a doddering buffoon who is, along every personal, professional, and moral dimension, one of the least admirable humans on earth.

Danske politikere: Flere motorveje! Flere vejbaner!

Måske ikke så overraskende med tanke på at Facebook startede som en side hvor umodne drenge kunne savle over kvindelige medstuderende. Men Ray-Ban kan jo overveje om de vil have brand value a la Jeffrey Epstein

Som det siges i en kommentar er Republikanerne både racister og klynkehoveder på galaktisk skala (Vi kan forvente tavshed fra de ellers højtråbende ytringsfrihedsforkæmpere herhjemme)

I know people want to say something else with this chart, but the striking bit is that exports from Germany to #China have basically stagnated since the end of 2014.

Selsing Messerschmidt Og diverse selverklærede ytringsfrihedsforkæmpere

Apropos #dkpol

Post a banger, not in English youtu.be/njoYt9n5Jjk?...

Monday's @theguardian.com cartoon #Trump #JeffBezos #WashingtonPost